Golden Boy

"Apologize to Mike and get the hell out of here, before we really destroy you, you stupid cleaner!" he snarled. The taunting laughter from the group echoed around the court. Ethan’s cheeks burned as he clenched his fists, but he didn’t let the tears fall. Not now. Not when he could still hold his dignity—though it was quickly slipping away. Melissa’s eyes shifted uncomfortably, and for a moment, Ethan saw something in them—a flicker of fear. But it was quickly replaced by an air of indifference. She shifted on her feet, glancing away, clearly uncomfortable but refusing to step forward. The group continued to mock him, calling him a beggar and a loser. "Look at him," one of them laughed. "A poor idiot who thinks he’s better than everyone else!" The mocking continued, but none of it hit harder than the silence from Melissa. Ethan turned his head toward her, his voice cracking as he asked. “Melissa, what the hell are you doing here? You... you’re my girlfriend!” His voice trembled with a mixture of anger and hurt. The heir of the Elliot family, but his parents didn’t tell him the truth. They wanted Ethan to feel the difficulties of life.

Alex spends a whole year as a delivery boy in a rich house. The family treats him like dirt. Sarah, his wife, pretends to care while she meets another man. Then one night at a birthday party the truth spills out. Alex is not poor. He is the only heir of the powerful Brooks family. The year of hard work was a test. The Anderson family failed it. Now the quiet boy is gone. Alexander Brooks is done being stepped on. The divorce papers come in the morning. The real fight starts right after.

He knelt for no one. Not the jock who ordered him to tie his shoes, not the girl who called him worthless in front of a packed restaurant. He smiled, poured the water, and made one call that ended three lives before sunrise. Leanor Prime spent two years disguised as a broke waiter to prove he didn't need his family's empire, secretly funding the girl he loved while she fell for another man's lie. The night she humiliates him publicly is the same night his brother calls him home to lose everything, instead he walks into his own boardroom unrecognized and burns his brother's power grab to ash in ten minutes. Then he learns his father wasn't just dead, he was murdered, to bury a fraud tracing back to a man Leanor watched get buried twenty years ago. A man who's alive, and has spent two decades turning his own brother into a weapon and his most trusted analyst into a spy. Now it's total war, inside betrayal, the woman he loves forced to choose between him and evidence framing him for murder, a ghost three moves ahead his whole life. Leanor never loses. This time it might cost him everything he just clawed back.

Ben Akoni, a struggling writer nicknamed "Shrimp Boy" for his dead-end job at a Miami seafood shack, lives under the thumb of humiliation. His girlfriend leaves him for a billionaire, his landlord threatens eviction, and even his literary aspirations are mocked by a tech titan. Just when his world seems hopelessly bleak, a mysterious Tycoon System grants him a peculiar power: turning virtual slaps in a mobile game into real-life rewards.

They mocked me, turned me into a clown show, and my one true love betrayed me. All because I was poor and a nobody. Now, I have a Wealth Generation System. They will all regret it!

Broke. Humiliated. Betrayed. Alex Black was the butt of jokes in his school, the popular errand boy everyone called to do their menial jobs. The most achievement Alex could boast of was self-developing a website, which he used for taking errand gigs from other students. His somewhat other worthy achievement was dating Emily Marks (or at least he thought), the prettiest girl from his class. Just when his horrors in human forms thought they had given Alex their best shot, Alex’s life picked up with a strange $100,000,000 alert. Their best was just his starting point. Alex is about to embark on a journey of face-slapping and revenge that will change the course of his life and his world forever.

Arthur thought he was just a regular guy until his own uncle tried to stab him in a high-rise office building. Suddenly, Arthur wakes up with strange shadow powers and a target on his back. Hunted by a magical police officer with lightning in her hands and trapped inside a glowing purple dome that covers all of New York City, Arthur has to figure out who he really is. But every secret he uncovers changes everything, and the biggest shock of all is that his entire life might just be a trick.

Why is the world cruel to good guys? Nathan Walter spent years as the laughingstock of Braxton College, ridiculed for his poverty and mocked for his dreams. He thought his girlfriend was the one person on his side, until she stole his life's work and handed it to his bully on a silver platter. Left in the dirt and humiliated before the world, Nathan is forced to make a choice. It’s time to stop hiding. It’s time to show them who he really is. He isn't just a student; he’s the son of the world’s most powerful man. Now, Nathan has a billion-dollar question for those who crushed him: How does it feel to realize you just declared war on your new boss?

Peace has finally come to Kelor but not all is as it seems. Deven, the illegitimate son of the current Alpha, a half-blood and the pack's Beta, has to fight a new threat to the continent of Kelor and in the midst of the struggle, he has to chose between marrying for the sake of his heart or for the game of politics. Sif the leader of the Vikings has had to flee her homeland, leaving her family and some of her people behind. The journey over the ocean has been plagued with death and mutiny. Finally, she arrives on a new continent with a few of her followers. Now she has time to mourn her dead. Now she can build and start again. Or can she? What dangers await her and her people, here in Kelor?

Alan Greyson was taunted by his in-laws and used as a show of shame for other wealthy people to laugh at. His wife was his only consolation but it didn't last long. She pressured Alan into a divorce agreement when he was looking battered on the hospital bed. Life offered him a chance at redemption when he received a call. One call turned out to be the moment his life changed for the better. He put his ex-in-laws to their feet but being the leader of a consortium, how far would he truly go to defeat his enemies? Could the vibrancy remain even after he found out the secret his father had been hiding for years?